By Sara Bright Sara Bright When Frieze London opens its doors in Regent’s Park this October, it will do so at a moment of genuine…
By Sara Noah Something unusual happened in London between January and June 2025. The capital’s major art institutions – Tate, the National Gallery, the Barbican,…
By Sara Noah Stephen Friedman Gallery closed in February. Tiwani Contemporary, after fifteen years championing African diasporic art from its Mayfair base, followed in May.…
By Tessa Nolan There is a peculiar contradiction at the heart of London’s art world in 2026. The blockbuster exhibitions are extraordinary – perhaps the…
By Sara Bright Jonathan Wateridge has, in 2026, done what most painters only dream of: he has moved from one of the world’s most prestigious…
By Tessa Nolan When David Hockney’s Bigger Christmas Trees illuminated the twin north chimneys of Battersea Power Station on the evening of 1 December 2023,…
By Sara Bright When Christopher Nolan revealed in May that his forthcoming The Odyssey – the first feature film shot entirely on IMAX cameras, budgeted…
By Sara Bright When Frida Kahlo’s El sueño (La cama) hammered at $47m on the evening of 20 November 2025, the room at Sotheby’s New…
By Sara Bright Francisco Goya’s unflinching gaze, which once fixed upon the follies of eighteenth-century Spain and the horrors of Napoleonic war, is experiencing a…
By Tessa Nolan There is a moment early in The Strangers when Ekow Eshun describes taking a Brillo pad to his own face at the…